The Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is calling for the prosecution of an Executive Council Member of the National Cathedral who used a different identity to unduly benefit from the project.
According to the MP, Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng sat on the Cathedral board and literally paid his own company, JNS Talent Centre Limited, a whooping GHS2.6million for no work done.
The incorporation documents of the company involved, show Johannes Eshun, Sheila Eshun and Kwabena Adu Gyamfi as the three directors.
Apparently, Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng, who is the Secretary to the Board of the National Cathedral, is the same person as Kwabena Adu Gyamfi, one of the directors of JNS that was paid GHS2.6million from the account of Cathedral, the legislator alleged.
“This appears to confirm justifiable criticisms that the cathedral project has blasphemously become an avenue for money laundering,” the MP posted on twitter on Monday, January 16.
“It remains exceedingly baffling why he keeps two personalities — one as Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng and the other as Kwabena Adu Gyamfi. Two personalities with different dates of birth; different passports; different TINs; different professions (Business Man and Prophet) and different addresses. What is he running from? Who is he hiding from? Does he suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder?
He stated rather strongly that, “Rev. Victor Adu Gyamfi AKA Kwabena Adu Gyamfi must be subjected to thorough credible investigations and prosecution for his many other offenses which have now come to light.”
Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa is also demanding “the immediate resignation of Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng AKA Kwabena Adu Gyamfi from the Board of the National Cathedral of Ghana.”
He said the man of God should be compelled to refund all taxpayer funds diverted into his company, JNS.
Whilst calling for a special forensic audit to be expeditiously commissioned into the National Cathedral project, the lawmaker wants President Akufo-Addo to outrightly dissolve the Board of the National Cathedral of Ghana.
FURTHER ACTIONS
“1. I shall be petitioning CHRAJ at 1pm today invoking its mandate under Article 218 of the 1992 Constitution to investigate the odious conflict of interest;
“2. I intend to file an urgent question when Parliament resumes for the Honourable Minister for Foreign Affairs to inform Ghanaians why Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng qualified for a diplomatic passport and the nature of due diligence, if any her ministry may have carried out;
“3. I also intend to file an urgent question for the Finance Minister on exactly what work JNS did to warrant a colossal transfer of GHS3.5million from our taxes and why that transaction did not find expression in his GHS339million unconstitutional cathedral withdrawals as presented to the Vote of Censure Committee.”
